@ugcatholics Hail Mary full of grace the lord is with you,blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb Jesus
Holy Mary mother of God,pray for us sinners now and our time of our death
Amen
Keeping everyone (including Africans) completely ignorant about Africa and the central role it plays in the economic and natural world is a core feature of Europeanised education, not a bug.
You're not supposed to know that the DRC is the most resource-rich country in the world, with an estimated $24 trillion sitting under its soil. You're not supposed to know that the rise of "western civilisation" from the 15th century on was entirely made possible by European contact with Africa, and that the resources and labour extracted from coastal West Africa from 1492 onwards are the entire reason why both American continents exist in their current form.
You're not supposed to know that both WW1 and WW2 were essentially wars fought over the right to African colonial domination and expansion, and that even the uranium that was used in "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki came from Shinkolobwe uranium mine in eastern DRC. You're not supposed to know that the reason the country of France exists in its current form is because tens of thousands of conscripted West African soldiers fought and won against the Nazis in Europe, and the French thereafter shipped them back to West Africa and massacred them at Camp Thiaroye in Senegal to avoid paying them their due wages.
You're not supposed to know that there was nothing cold about the so-called Cold War, because the vast majority of the hot theaters it was physically fought in were on the continent of Africa. (Zimbabwe, DRC, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Angola, Eritrea, Zambia etc). You're not supposed to know that the ongoing Ukraine war and the war in the Sahel are in fact the same conflict being fought by the same 2 sides, and that the reason France is desperately pushing funding and arms to Ukraine even as it falls into internal crisis is that Ukraine is acting as its proxy army in West Africa, as it tries to regain its lost colonial territories there, especially Niger where the cheap yellowcake uranium for its famously cheap nuclear energy used to come from before the 2023 revolution.
You're definitely not supposed to know that the entire global economy and system of trade as you know it is built on ruthless extraction from Africa and ensuring that Africa does not control anything it exports. You're not supposed to know that "Italian leather" doesn't come from Italy - it comes from Kano, Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that "Swiss chocolate" does not exist because cocoa does not grow anywhere in Switzerland or Europe - it comes from Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria. You're not supposed to know that Israel and the UAE control the global diamond and gold markets even though Israel has no diamond mine and the UAE has zero gold mines, because both resources are literally being stolen from the DRC and Sudan on an industrial basis.
You're basically not supposed to understand that the entire geopolitical world as you know it, rests entirely on extraction from Africa, poverty of Africans, and your own ignorance about where everything you use comes from.
Completely deliberate 500+ year-old feature, not accidental bug.
They’ll commend you for going to watch celebrities dance half naked on stage but the minute you attend a prayer conference you’re brainwashed... You’re in bondage... You have slaves mentality. Satan you’re a shameless liar!! Christians wake up!!! These people are not serious
History made in St. Louis.
In just 60 seconds, relive the moments when the Church declared Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Blessed.
A pioneering Catholic communicator. A missionary leader. A priest who brought the Gospel into millions of homes.
Now, the Church calls him Blessed Fulton J. Sheen.
Watch the full Beatification Mass and EWTN’s complete coverage on https://t.co/hRZqGM9kRz.
EWTN aired the historic Mass from The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, with additional special programming on Sheen’s life and legacy.
CATHOLICS MADE HISTORY TODAY IN THE USA 🇺🇸
Fulton Sheen's Beatification Mass
69 Bishops
1,000 Priests
850 Seminarians
850 Religious
260 Deacons
50,000 Laity
I bought a new rosary and Catholic Bible today.
Tonight, I’m going to Confession for the first time since the late 1990s.
Sunday, I’m going back to Mass.
I was raised Catholic. Catholic school. Catholic church. St. Joan of Arc staring down at me throughout my childhood. Catholicism was woven into me before I was old enough to understand what faith even meant.
Then I spent most of my adult life running in the opposite direction.
I came out as a lesbian as a teenager. I became an activist. A lawyer. A Democrat. After years of illness, losing my reproductive system and becoming profoundly disconnected from my own womanhood, I transitioned. I spent seven years on testosterone.
Then, at 43, I detransitioned.
Detransition has forced me to excavate my entire life - to separate who I actually am from who I spent decades trying to become.
And somewhere underneath all of it, apparently, was still the Catholic girl.
I don’t have every theological question answered. I don’t know exactly where this road leads. And I’m not walking back into the Church pretending the last 25 years never happened.
I’m walking back carrying every one of those years with me.
So tonight, for the first time in nearly three decades, I’m going to walk into a confessional.
Sunday, I’ll walk back into Mass.
The Great Adventure, indeed ✝️
Today we celebrate the birth of a little girl who would be called to become the Mother of her Creator, the Mother of God. Yet, she is born simply as a little girl, like the daughters and granddaughters we hold in our arms. We bestow upon her the most exalted and noble titles, such as Our Lady and Queen, but God’s way was and remains simpler and quieter, yet no less powerful and transformative. It is the way of Jesus Himself. #NativityOfMary
A woman has just given birth.
Everybody is happy. Then suddenly, she starts bleeding.
This is postpartum haemorrhage, and when it happens, no one has time to ask where the drug, tranexamic acid or TXA is.
That drug, Tranexamic acid can help reduce deaths from bleeding when it is given early after PPH starts.
So if a facility is providing emergency obstetric care, TXA should not be something they start looking for when the emergency has started.
It should be there.
As a man, if your wife is preparing to give birth, ask if the facility has TXA available. Same thing if you’re pregnant and preparing for delivery.
Ask questions. Know what is available.
Prepare before the emergency comes.
RT so that expectant mothers and fathers can see this very important message.
Source: Data, provided by @womenadvocate and @LSHTM.